"I spoke with someone who had taken Chem 1314 online, and when I asked the same question I got the same answer you just assumed. They'd use household items in really basic home experimentation labs. Sometimes there'd be less common ingredients, like citric acid, but mostly stuff I did in elementary school classrooms."
So this is worse than chemistry class in high school. I'm a physicist, not a chemist, but during my real-world studies I had to do quite a lot of chemical experiments, involving expensive equipment, dangerous acids and some toxic stuff. Can't do a 1% of it at home.
"2. It is a known problem that OOo takes a while to start. Staroffice (at the point when Sun bought it) was made by a German company. Most of the internal functions are named in german, and use abbreviations that are not obvious."
Geez, now I get it. And since Windows is made by an American company, it doesn't know foreign languages and has to check up each function name in the dictionary -- which slows down the program considerably. Thanks for explaining this mystery.
The core of his argument is that anti-ship missiles are too effective for a large surface ship to survive long in the naval battle. It does not have anything to do with the fact that it operates close to shore. Being close to shore only maked the odds even worse. I tend to believe this argument.
Mandrake and friends have been managing that for supported hardware for a number of years now. It will do so even for randomly selected laptops. So this notion that a 5 year Linux user has such persistent problems is absurd.
Yeah, right. And I have full-power (like in Windows) 3D hardware acceleration on my Radeon 9600 under Linux. Go figure.
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Does you grandma install Windows software? I suppose not, so stop bitching about how it is hard for her to install Linux software. She would have enough trouble with other OS-es as well.
I did not say that this was WHOLE reality. Just a tiny part of it. Try to understand what you read before replying. Personal opinions are very nice, but even when 1,000,000 people have a personal opinion that the Earth is flat, it does not make the Earth lose its spherical shape.
Thanks for telling me I'm American. All these years I've been mistaken about my nationality, but you came to my life and corrected my error.
This is reality. You can choose between accepting and understanding it or living in the world of dreams, where the international power of Burma is equal to the one of the USA. Your choice.
If we use probability calculus, it is good to use it properly. Even if there is a 1/1000000 probability of you ever needing to travel by air, if you KNOW that you are going to travel by air, what counts is not this minuscule probability, but the RELATIVE probability of being blown up once it is certain you're going to fly. And the relative probability of being blown up on the security-less airline is much higher than the relative probability of being blown up on the airline which does security check-ups, no matter how rarely do you fly.
Don't worry. "The USA is isolated" only in some journalist's minds. The only real player against the USA is the EU. Without the EU (and I can't comprehend why Barroso is playing this game, I think he wants to please some European America-haters to keep them from doing more damage), such countries as Brasil, Iran or even China mean NOTHING in the UN. China can obly block something in the Security Council, but not push anything through.
"Good points, but the point I am making is that we are both living in countries that have the nasty habit of meddling in the affairs of oil producing countries. That leads to a lot of enemies among the impoverished population of those nations"
I wouldn't call the population of Saudi Arabia "impoverished".
Anyone who believes those clinics are supposed to treat Internet addiction, is just sooo naive. They are to eliminate the democratic opposition, just as the USSR used to put its dissidents into asylums. It will be very easy to say "he spends too much time on the Internet" (it being an important means of communication for every self-respecting dissident) and put him/her in the clinic, for "treatment".
This is making a fuss about nothing. All these years, the USA have never -- never -- abused its position of the Internet governor. There was no corruption scandal concerning the DNS root servers, which cannot be said about many "international" organisations (which are simple ruled not by a single country, but by an oligarchy of the USA, the EU and several other nations). So why change it?
The argument "let the parents decide" could be as well applied to:
1. let the parents decide whether they teach their children fairy tales or quantum mechanics 2. let the parents decide whether their kids can have sex with them 3. let the parents decide whether their kids can take drugs or not 4. let the parents decide whether their kids can drink alcohol
It's not the state which wants to take away parent's rights. It's the parents who shy from their obligation to raise the kids. Everybody thinks that their kids will be raised and taught by someone else: school, TV, computers...
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"I spoke with someone who had taken Chem 1314 online, and when I asked the same question I got the same answer you just assumed. They'd use household items in really basic home experimentation labs. Sometimes there'd be less common ingredients, like citric acid, but mostly stuff I did in elementary school classrooms."
So this is worse than chemistry class in high school. I'm a physicist, not a chemist, but during my real-world studies I had to do quite a lot of chemical experiments, involving expensive equipment, dangerous acids and some toxic stuff. Can't do a 1% of it at home.
"One of the fundamental issues is that a lot of christians believe humans have a soul and that animals do not."
I'm a Christian and I believe animals have a soul, too. Only theirs is pure.
"2. It is a known problem that OOo takes a while to start. Staroffice (at the point when Sun bought it) was made by a German company. Most of the internal functions are named in german, and use abbreviations that are not obvious."
Geez, now I get it. And since Windows is made by an American company, it doesn't know foreign languages and has to check up each function name in the dictionary -- which slows down the program considerably. Thanks for explaining this mystery.
The core of his argument is that anti-ship missiles are too effective for a large surface ship to survive long in the naval battle. It does not have anything to do with the fact that it operates close to shore. Being close to shore only maked the odds even worse. I tend to believe this argument.
Still, it's better for the group to be more quiet than less quiet. Besides, carrier groups are a thing of the past.
Australlian dollars, you say. How much would that be in koala skins?
The game is just too expensive. In my country a normal price for a PC game is around $50 or less. $83 is one hell of a ripoff.
Mandrake and friends have been managing that for supported hardware for a number of years now. It will do so even for randomly selected laptops. So this notion that a 5 year Linux user has such persistent problems is absurd.
Yeah, right. And I have full-power (like in Windows) 3D hardware acceleration on my Radeon 9600 under Linux. Go figure.
Does you grandma install Windows software? I suppose not, so stop bitching about how it is hard for her to install Linux software. She would have enough trouble with other OS-es as well.
I did not say that this was WHOLE reality. Just a tiny part of it. Try to understand what you read before replying. Personal opinions are very nice, but even when 1,000,000 people have a personal opinion that the Earth is flat, it does not make the Earth lose its spherical shape.
Thanks for telling me I'm American. All these years I've been mistaken about my nationality, but you came to my life and corrected my error.
Read up. Saudi Arabia has an extensive welfare system that Sweden would be proud of.
This is reality. You can choose between accepting and understanding it or living in the world of dreams, where the international power of Burma is equal to the one of the USA. Your choice.
So the global policy towards the Internet is based on who won the last presidential elections in the USA? This is just sooo funny...
If we use probability calculus, it is good to use it properly. Even if there is a 1/1000000 probability of you ever needing to travel by air, if you KNOW that you are going to travel by air, what counts is not this minuscule probability, but the RELATIVE probability of being blown up once it is certain you're going to fly. And the relative probability of being blown up on the security-less airline is much higher than the relative probability of being blown up on the airline which does security check-ups, no matter how rarely do you fly.
Don't worry. "The USA is isolated" only in some journalist's minds. The only real player against the USA is the EU. Without the EU (and I can't comprehend why Barroso is playing this game, I think he wants to please some European America-haters to keep them from doing more damage), such countries as Brasil, Iran or even China mean NOTHING in the UN. China can obly block something in the Security Council, but not push anything through.
"Good points, but the point I am making is that we are both living in countries that have the nasty habit of meddling in the affairs of oil producing countries. That leads to a lot of enemies among the impoverished population of those nations"
I wouldn't call the population of Saudi Arabia "impoverished".
Yeah, being blown up in the air is so much fun. I wouldn't dare to miss it, too.
Anyone who believes those clinics are supposed to treat Internet addiction, is just sooo naive. They are to eliminate the democratic opposition, just as the USSR used to put its dissidents into asylums. It will be very easy to say "he spends too much time on the Internet" (it being an important means of communication for every self-respecting dissident) and put him/her in the clinic, for "treatment".
This is making a fuss about nothing. All these years, the USA have never -- never -- abused its position of the Internet governor. There was no corruption scandal concerning the DNS root servers, which cannot be said about many "international" organisations (which are simple ruled not by a single country, but by an oligarchy of the USA, the EU and several other nations). So why change it?
I block ads because I can.
Google Ads are *ugly* as hell.
It seems these guys made a crude mathematical error in their calculation: arXiv.org.
Look up this: arXiv.org. It seems these guys made a crude mathematical error in their calculations.
The argument "let the parents decide" could be as well applied to:
1. let the parents decide whether they teach their children fairy tales or quantum mechanics
2. let the parents decide whether their kids can have sex with them
3. let the parents decide whether their kids can take drugs or not
4. let the parents decide whether their kids can drink alcohol
It's not the state which wants to take away parent's rights. It's the parents who shy from their obligation to raise the kids. Everybody thinks that their kids will be raised and taught by someone else: school, TV, computers...
... only that the quality of typesetting is really poor.
That's 'cause it's a PDF. You can't open it in the Equation Editor. The point is, typesetting this document in MS Word would have been a nightmare.